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>> first, it was the white house, it was obama and jack lew and rob nabors who went to harry reid and said this is the solution but everyone has their fingerprint on this and it is everyone's -- the policy and it is law, what is important about it is, it is a governing travesty. the idea that you are going to go around and in random ways cut things and would be like a family that has to cut their budget, saying, let's cut the medicine that keeps the children alive. it is stupid. >> chris: kim, having said that it is stupid, what are the chances that we're actually going to reach march 1st and the sequester, the $85 billion in automatic cuts, will kick in and if it does, and if we begin to see, markets reacting and stuff, how does it play out with the president insisting there have to be tax hikes on the rich, and, the republicans saying, no, it all needs to come out of spending cuts? >> i think it is very likely we hit that day and it comes and the reason why is because, the republicans have been asking the white house to come up with some sort of alternative, which you actually prior
>> first, it was the white house, it was obama and jack lew and rob nabors who went to harry reid and said this is the solution but everyone has their fingerprint on this and it is everyone's -- the policy and it is law, what is important about it is, it is a governing travesty. the idea that you are going to go around and in random ways cut things and would be like a family that has to cut their budget, saying, let's cut the medicine that keeps the children alive. it is stupid. >>...
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. >> senate majority leader harry reid asked the public broadcasting system was if the f ultimate goal was to move to a single payer sis ste. he responded according to forbes, magazine, yes, yes, absolutely yes. if they tried to move obamacare to a single payer system, what would your response be?>> >> i think it is amazing sometimes when politicians are forthright. he hasow admitted now that thath is their goal. people have to think about it. the goal of single payer may mean everybody gets medicaid. if you are excited about going on medicaid you need to voteid a with harry reid and with the president. thi i think it is a bad idea.85% 85% of us had health insurance. t we should haveri tried to fix te the system for the 15% who didn't instead of destroying it for everyone in the countryt who actually had good health insurance. the president did nothing about prices rising.es he has made insurance more mor expensive because of his mandates and making thehe insurance cover more items. you issued a statement after the carnage of wednesdaywe calling on the president to end foreign assistan
. >> senate majority leader harry reid asked the public broadcasting system was if the f ultimate goal was to move to a single payer sis ste. he responded according to forbes, magazine, yes, yes, absolutely yes. if they tried to move obamacare to a single payer system, what would your response be?>> >> i think it is amazing sometimes when politicians are forthright. he hasow admitted now that thath is their goal. people have to think about it. the goal of single payer may mean...
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. >> john: senate majority leader harry reid was recently asked at a nevada public broadcasting program if the ultimate goal of obama care was to move to a single pair system. he responded according to forbes magazine, yes, he yes, absolutely yes. if the senate majority leader tried to move obama care to a single pair system, what would your response be? >> well, you know, i think it's amazing sometimes when politicians are forth right. is he has admitted now that that is their goal. people have to think about it, the goal of single pair, that may well mean that everybody in the country gets medicaid, and if you are excited about going on medicaid, then you need to vote with harry reid and with the president, but i think it's a bad idea. 85% of us had health insurance. we should have tried to fix the system for the 15% who didn't. instead of destroying it for everybody in the country who actually had good health insurance. our main concern was the price rising and the president did nothing about prices rising. he has made insurance more expensive because of his mandates and making the i
. >> john: senate majority leader harry reid was recently asked at a nevada public broadcasting program if the ultimate goal of obama care was to move to a single pair system. he responded according to forbes magazine, yes, he yes, absolutely yes. if the senate majority leader tried to move obama care to a single pair system, what would your response be? >> well, you know, i think it's amazing sometimes when politicians are forth right. is he has admitted now that that is their...
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the president could pick up the phone and tell harry reid to bring the bill up. we pass a number of energy bills in the house to relieve consumers in the middle of the summer driving season of the increasing price at the pump. is the president encouraging the senate to bring it up? >> i raised the same issues with jack lou last week. i said, you keep talking. the administration, about how pointless, what a waste of time it is to keep repealing obamacare when it's not going to happen. yet they are making a bunch of proposals that aren't going to happen. you could tend to your own knitting, pass a farm bill. you have the power of the purse. only four of 12 appropriations bills have you passed. why not do what the house is supposed to do. >> continue to address the items you put forward. on the farm bill, we have passed it. in the house, what we did is said we are going to bust up the 50-year custom where you will marry two different issues and force people to vote on those. we passed the farm bill. >> you have the food stamps. the only way you have been able to get
the president could pick up the phone and tell harry reid to bring the bill up. we pass a number of energy bills in the house to relieve consumers in the middle of the summer driving season of the increasing price at the pump. is the president encouraging the senate to bring it up? >> i raised the same issues with jack lou last week. i said, you keep talking. the administration, about how pointless, what a waste of time it is to keep repealing obamacare when it's not going to happen. yet...
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the president could pick up the phone and tell harry reid to bring that bill right up. we've passed a number of energy bills in the house that go toward trying to relieve the consumers out there in the middle of the summer driving season at the increasing price at the pump. is the president joining us, encouraging the senator to bring it up. >> i raised exactly the same issues with treasury secretary jack lew last week. i said what a waste of time it is to keep trying to repeal obamacare by the republicans when it isn't going to happen. you could tend to your own knitting, pass a farm bill. you have the power of the purse. only 4 of the 12 appropriations bills have you even passed. why not do what the house is supposed to do? >> let me continue to address the list of items that you put forward. one, on the farm bill, we have passed a farm bill. we in the house, we said we're going to bust up the almost 50-year custom where would you going to marry up two issues and force people to vote on those. we passed a farm bill. republican majority for the first time says we don't
the president could pick up the phone and tell harry reid to bring that bill right up. we've passed a number of energy bills in the house that go toward trying to relieve the consumers out there in the middle of the summer driving season at the increasing price at the pump. is the president joining us, encouraging the senator to bring it up. >> i raised exactly the same issues with treasury secretary jack lew last week. i said what a waste of time it is to keep trying to repeal obamacare...
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as harry reid, the majority leader in the senate, said this week, if you have 90% of the american people and 80% of republicans saying, oh, yeah, background checks are a good idea, we like that, and the senate still can't get it done, i think the emphasis should be on the dysfunction in the u.s. senate. look at the congressional ratings right now. 79% of americans say congress just doesn't work. they don't have that feeling about president obama. >> not a big defeat for president obama? >> of course it's a big defeat for president obama. he went all around the country, and on wednesday night he had a meltdown in the rose garden. the senators actually voted with the way they felt was the right way to vote. he made the argument, is there a serious public policy argument for background checks, affecting what happened in newtown or in tucson or aurora, colorado, or the crime rates? i'm sorry. the parents of newtown -- >> they want something done. >> i have the greatest sympathy for the parents of newtown, but they never made a public policy argument. that's just a fact. >> i think the public
as harry reid, the majority leader in the senate, said this week, if you have 90% of the american people and 80% of republicans saying, oh, yeah, background checks are a good idea, we like that, and the senate still can't get it done, i think the emphasis should be on the dysfunction in the u.s. senate. look at the congressional ratings right now. 79% of americans say congress just doesn't work. they don't have that feeling about president obama. >> not a big defeat for president obama?...